This is on the media. I'm Michael Owinger.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. It's been a heck of a year for the universities. To date, we've seen

college presidents resign under pressure campaigns. James Ryan announced his departure today

amid a Justice Department investigation into UVA's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Foreign-born holders of student visas indefinitely detained for exercising their free speech rights.

Ramesa Ozturk and others identified as pro-Palestinian activists have had visas revoked or their legal status challenged by the Trump administration.

Hundreds of millions of dollars already allocated for research grants for diseases like cancer

and Alzheimer's rescinded.

But none of the seismic shifts that have occurred this year at university should have come

as a surprise.

The fault lines were there for all to see back when Donald Trump was still on the campaign trail last year.

When I return to the White House, I will fire the radical left accreditors that have allowed

our colleges to become dominated by Marxists, maniacs, and lunatics.

So far, the accreditors have kept their jobs, but as the evidence piles up, it's clear that Trump was not making idle threats against the universities.

And it wasn't just the president setting off alarm bells.

We have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.

In fact, there's a strain on the political right that has been

gunning for universities for decades. Last year, we explored that history in season one of the

Harvard Plan, which we made in partnership with the Boston Globe, the series focused on the

short, tumultuous tenure of the first black president of the university,

Claudine Gay, and the forces that arrayed to hound her out of that position.

As a reminder, it was all unfolding in the wake of the anti-war encampments, the accusations of

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